Look around any workplace and the safety materials are hard to miss. There are safety posters, videos, course announcements, booklets, stickers, tip sheets and more.
But safety takes more than that. True workplace safety requires action. At the Glenbard Wastewater Authority in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, employees have worked for more than three years without a major lost-time injury.That earned the facility the George Burke Jr. Safety Award from the Central States Water Environment Association and a Water Environment Federation Safety Award for 2016, but the accomplishment didn’t stop there. As of November 2016, the authority had reached 1,300 injury-free days, and
